Black Iron Radio

Krissy, Ashley and Ryan talk about their "Why" for tracking. For BIN, tracking doesn't necessarily mean weighing and measuring your food, it just means keeping track of food intake. This is a practice that ideally helps to engrain good habits, builds awareness, and lead to insights about personal health.

Ben, Krissy's other half, joins Krissy and Ryan to talk about male body image issues and the journey towards self acceptance and whether or not it's truly attainable.

The gang talks about autoimmune disorders. We discuss a bit about what they are, how life changes after a diagnosis, living with one (or several) and being your own advocate when talking to doctors.

We continue our conversation about sleep and include strategies to help optimize the amount and quality of your sleep.

We talk about the importance of sleep. Why you need it, what happens when you don't get enough of it, and how the problems from lack of sleep can go from acute to chronic.

Emi, Acacia, Ryann and Ryan sat down to reflect about their own personal struggles with diet, nutrition, self image, and a whole lot else.

In an effort to make everyone's life easier, BIN developed a series of Client Types and created different questionnaires for client check-ins. It didn't make sense to ask the same questions to people who have wildly different goals. To that end, BIN laid out 8 different tracks that will help the coach and client relationship and communication, so both get the most out each check-in. Hell yeah!

Who is ready to party? Start off your 2020 right! Give us 12 weeks of honest and consistent effort and Black Iron Nutrition you get your chance at winning some pretty epic prizes. Visit our blog @ www.blackironnutrition.com/blog for additional details.

Krissy is back! We had an off-the-cuff conversation where she updates everyone about her life and her growing passion for outdoor adventures. She talks about the ways her eating has changed to accommodate that new lifestyle and why it's much more importan

We recorded this back in August, right after Megan got into a 5 car crash on the Interstate and suffered an arm injury. It seemed like a good excuse to talk about the strategies to optimize recovering from injury.

Emily joins us to talk about mindset control, how to look at yourself and your relationship with food, strategies in dealing with staying on track in social situations, strategies for dealing with your thoughts if you don't stay on track, and what it take

A nice quick episode. We recorded this over the summer, but with the holiday season coming up, it's more relevant now than then. We share our nutrition strategies for travel, both vacation and business type trips.

We talk about tacos, BIN Wellness-which is the program our resident NTP Emily set up, which helps people who can't or don't want to track their food develop the necessary skills and body awareness to become healthy eaters. The audio is a little bit weird, apologies. 

We were going to talk about something along the lines of tracking, but we took a wrong turn in Albuquerque and ended up talking about food guilt and shame because it's the holidays and people freak out about such things.

A few of us answer a few of your questions. It's a fun time. This'll be an ongoing thing, so if you have questions of your own, hit that DM.

Ryan tells a ghost story. Nutritionally speaking, what works for one person might not work for another. We talk about the foolishness of trying to base your individual nutrition decisions based off what other people are doing. We have people ask us a lot about what our macros are, and we try to avoid answering, because we are our own individuals and at our own spot in our own journey.

This episode we recorded a few months ago, but it made the most sense to put it after talking about cutting weight. It's really personal. But the point is, at some point, you gotta eat more and you need to accept that. Get your head right, and get ya weight up. 

Q and baby Langston joins Ryann, Ryan and Acacia to talk about competition cuts. Cutting for short term goals is different than leaning out for life in general. It's the one circumstance where an arbitrary number on the scale is actually important and needs to be attained. So we go into some of that and talk about what it's like to do a competition cut.

Nice cut ya got there. Now what? (Part II)

The first in a three part series about cutting calories. This first part is about earning a cut. Many people come to us want to start out "dieting" which is to say they want to lose weight, which is to say they want to lose fat. But starting a diet without first learning the skills of eating properly and tracking properly, these efforts can cause long term problems even if they work in the short t...

We talk about The Scale. Dun dun dunnnn. The scale is just one tool in the toolbox we have to gauge progress towards whatever goals you have. It's irrational to think it's the be all end all of everything. So, like everything else, it's something you don't need to freak out about. Or judge your worth by. Or relate to the world through. You're beautiful, you're good!

Emily Rodela is our resident NTP, and head of BIN Restore. We talk about the program, which is focused almost solely on working through health issues that might be caused or exasperated by food. Emily shares her own journey through her health problems and

A brief overview of nutrition. It includes how to calculate an individual's caloric needs, how to fine tune that calculation to find a person's specific caloric needs, and how to partition the macronutrients: protein, carbohydrates, and fat. We overview how to adjust those macros to maintain weight, lower body fat and weight, and increase weight while minimizing fat gain.

Megan, Ryan and a few others dive into BIN's approach to nutrition. Ryan talks quiet and slow, but that's okay. We talk about the approach our coaches take with clients and espouse the approaches that work for us.

So about a year ago, things got pretty hectic at Black Iron which caused us to put the Iron Cast on the back burner. Episodes were sporadic and mostly focused on giving "updates" to what was going on in our world. Eventually that led to conversations about shelving the Iron Cast all together. So we did. But we are BACK baby! We retooled, rebranded, and now we are relaunched. Welcome to Black Iron...